PRIME VIEWING TODAY'S TV HIGHLIGHTS.Byline: Tom Hoffarth Figure skating figure skating Sport in which ice skaters, singly or in pairs, perform various jumps, spins, and footwork. The figure skate blade has a special serrated toe pick, or toe rake, at the front. Yes, it's just a stupid exhibition - the champions gala, they call it - but there's enough gaga ga·ga adj. Informal 1. Silly; crazy. 2. Completely absorbed, infatuated, or excited: They were gaga over the rock group's new album. 3. Senile; doddering. for the network to dish off most of the other gold- medal finals to its cable partners and stretch this one out. If they can guarantee a lot of falls, maybe we'll watch NBC's answer to ``Skating With the Stars,'' which comes without the possibility of seeing Erik Estrada doing a triple-toe loop paired up with that angry Italian ice dancer woman. Channel 4, 8 p.m.-midnight (delayed) Curling Any kind of medal here would be a first for a American team, and the men have a decent shot at bronze if it can get past a bunch of rowdy Scottish guys (think Groundskeeper Willy with a broom) who happen to be representing Great Britain. The men's gold-medal match gives Canada a shot at mastering something that its hockey team couldn't. Canada vs. Finland: USA Network, 8 a.m. (live) and CNBC CNBC Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition (artificial intelligence) CNBC Consumer News and Business Channel CNBC Congress of National Black Churches, Inc. , 2 p.m. (tape); U.S. vs. Great Britain, MSNBC MSNBC Microsoft/National Broadcasting Company , 4 a.m. (live). Men's hockey Don't be distracted by some women's biathlon biathlon (bīăth`lŏn), sport in which cross-country skiers race across hilly terrain, occasionally stopping to shoot with rifles at sets of fixed targets. The biathlon features the 10-km (6. relay final that might seem to have more pizzaz than these two Euro-heavy semifinal matches. Sweden vs. Czech Republic: MSNBC, 7:30 a.m. (live); Finland vs. Russia: USA Network, noon. (live) Speedskating When Chad Hedrick won the 5,000 meters way last week, there was talk he could take home five gold medals. Then came Shani Davis - or rather, he didn't come, there was no team pursuit gold and ... it just got messy. For this men's 10,000-meter gold-medal race, Hedrick has one last chance for his second gold, and Davis, who has gone home, won't be around to congratulate him. Channel 4, 8 p.m.-midnight (tape) CAPTION(S): 2 boxes Box: (1) MEDAL DETECTOR (2) PRIDE OF AMERICA Pride of America is a cruise ship and a member of the Norwegian Cruise Line (NCL) fleet. Inaugurated during the 2005-2006 cruise season, she is the first U.S. flagged cruise ship in close to 50 years [1]. |
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